The articles are accepted in electronic format Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx formats), the file with the article should be named according to author’s surname. If there are several authors, the article file should be named according to the surname of the first author. All illustrations and tables are arranged in the text after the references to them.
The text is typed according to the next parameters: Times New Roman, 12 pt size, line spacing 1.5, indention 10 mm, without word wrap. Size of margins is to be: top and bottom – 20 mm, left – 30 mm, right – 20 mm. The recommended length of the manuscript, including tables, figures and references – 4–8 typewritten pages of A4 size. All pages should be numbered (page numbering should be from the title page).
All articles submitted to the editorial office undergo double peer review.
Title page
The title page should include the following structural elements:
1. UDC (universaldecimalclassification);
2. Titlename
Maximum title length is 10–12 words. Long title names as well as short title names are difficult to perceive.
3. Initials and surname of the author(s).
4. Affiliation:
The name of organization where the author works (if the author worked and conducted research in several organizations, it is preferable to specify these organizations), address, city and country. Each organization name should be specified in a new line. The counting number in superscript should be written before the organization name and after the author’s surname, that helps to relate the author with the organization. Authors ' email addresses.
5. The abstract should be informative (without general words, original, structured), it should cover principle article content and research results.
6. Keywords:
Keywords are a semantic kernel of the article, they are main concepts and categories that describe the research issues. Key words help the readers to search the articles in electronic databases, so the key words should reflect the discipline (i. e. the field of scientific research), subject, goal and object of research.
Keywords may be either separate words or phrases (singular number, Nominative case). It is suggested 5–7 key words in Russian and English languages, at most 3 key words in the key phrase.
1. I. S. Ivanova, P. V. Petrova,b
aThe Scientific-Engineering Enterprise «Geoinformation Systems», 6 Surhanava Street, Minsk 220012, Belarus, ivanov@gmail.com
bBelarusian State University, 4 Niezalieznasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
Corresponding author: petrov@bsu.by
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The article should consist of the following structural parts that are written boldface type.
1. Introduction
Includes: urgency of research, correspondent literature review, stated problem, research aims and objectives.
2. Researchmethodology/theoreticalframework
The part describes research methods and methodology.
3. Resultsanddiscussion
The part covers actual results of the research (texts, tables, graphs, diagrams, formulas, pictures, images), interpretation of the results, including their relevance to research hypothesis, as well as limitations of the research and generalization of the results, suggestion on practical application and further research directions.
4. Conclusion
The part covers section summary. Duplication of wording from the sections should be avoided in the summary. The part can be included into the previous one.
a) The list includes only works that have been used during preparation of the article and have references in the text.
b) References to the bibliographic sources should be arranged in accordance with their citation (mentioning) – a counting number of the reference and the citied page in the text should be written in square brackets (e.g. [1,3]).
Each source should have its counting number in the list.
c) The list of the bibliographic sources should be arranged as follows:
– a book: name and initials of the author (if there are more than three authors, first three authors should be specified), book full title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication.
Example 1. Euwals R., Dagevos J., Gijsberts M. et al. Immigration, integration and the labour market: Turkish immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands. Bonn : IZA, 2007.
– articles from the journals, collections, materials and conferences, etc.:
Example: 4. Raijman R., Ophir A. The Economic Integration of Latin Americans in Israel. Can. Ethn. Stud. 2014. Vol. 46, No. 3. P. 77–102. DOI: 10.1353/ces.2014.0036.
Illustrations should complement the text and correspondent tables in the text rather than duplicate.
The illustrations and graphs should be clear. The illustrations should be of the same scale, maximum illustration size should be at most 170x220 mm (including image-related text).
Minimum permissible resolution is 300 dpi. All symbols on the illustrations should be written Times New Roman. Image elements and graphs are numbers by italic Arabic numerals that are transcribed in image-related texts.
The illustrations are numbered in accordance with the order of their citation in the text.
Each illustration should have a short name and references to the text (e. g. fig. 1). The only illustration is not numbered.
Requirements to tables
ТThe tables should complement each other rather than duplicate.
The tables are numbered according to their order of citation in the text.
Each table should have a short name and references to the text (e. g. table 1). The only table in the text is not numbered.
